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:: Title ::

Olėkuma Uluuha Ohuokaia (Round Dance Song From Olėkma District)

:: Genre ::

round dance

:: Performers & Instruments ::

Alekseev, Nikolai Timofeevich [vocal]

:: Setting ::

Unspecified

:: Location ::

Unspecified (Unspecified), Armenia (unspecified) (Armenia)

:: Language ::

Yakut

:: Culture ::

Siberian, Turkic, Yakut

:: Session ::

Yakut 8/64

:: Date ::

8/9/1964

:: Reference Information ::

T1700.0, Track 12 (00:01:13)

:: Original Format ::

Reel to Reel

:: Session Notes ::

1 - Yakut sing only monody or unison in dance - never polyphonically - they sometimes sing with a two-tongued jaw's harp. The shamans have totally disappeared. The Yakut had a 3, 2, 1 stringed fiddle - not a traditional instrument - introduced by the Russian cultures - the one we saw was a yard long held against the belly. [Source: Tape notes]

2 - These Yakut songs were collected and given to Alan Lomax by Eduard Alexeev. They were originally recorded in Armenia, U.S.S.R., in 1962. [Source: Editor]